Ten Hag's BIG Lesson Learned At Anfield | He's Got My 100% Trust As Man Utd Manager

What's a difference a week can make? Last Monday we were celebrating Manchester United winning the Carabao Cup. This Monday we're talking about United losing 7-0 to Liverpool and Anfield, a humiliating defeat. And Eric Ten Haag now faces another tough week as United manager. We've overcome hurdles before and speed bumps. How does he react to this? How do you think he should react? You let me know in the comments. I'm going to run through this video. Please give me 10 minutes of your time because I think it's a really important one.

The wins is easy to love it when it's easy to be United fan when you're winning, right? Be a fan of any sport when your team's winning. When you're losing, that's when it's difficult. That's when it's more important and that's what I'm going to run through in this video. As I said, look, Eric Ten Haag has had so much adversity in his first season in charge. The Brighton and Brentford games to kick off the campaign. I mean, it was possible start. We saw how he responded there.

The 13.8 kilometre infamous run, dropping Shaw, McGuire, Ronaldo and the reaction that happened after that to the Ronaldo situation in itself and how Ten Haag coped with that as a manager to taking us back to winning. All of that all taken into account and we won the League Cup and the momentum flowing through this club was just incredible to that drop off there at Anfield against Liverpool. I called it a capitulation. I don't know how you want to describe it, but it was unexpected. There were certain signs that you could have connected the dots if you wanted to. I will run through those in this video, but it was just seismic.

I think Gary Neville pretty much summed it up perfectly in some of his post-match comments here with Jamie Cowan. I think that's definitely my main takeaway from it. I mentioned in the live stream, I mentioned in my match reaction, how those players capitulated in that second half. It's obvious there's a problem there. That's down to Eric Ten Haag. To do a little bit of root cause analysis, find out from these players what happened there. What happened to that team that went to the New Camp in front of 90,000 fans and took it to the probably Europe's most informed team.

That team that won the cup final to do that, he needs to find out exactly what went wrong. I tell you what, as Gary says here, I absolutely trust him to do that. He absolutely won't take that. As I said, Gary says it there and I feel really strongly about this one. I think there are things you can question from Ten Haag in that game against Liverpool. Decision to start DeLau, playing Bruno out on the left wing. Very close to the number 10.

Tatically, I thought there were errors that he made in that game. But this United team, I tell you what, Ten Haag won't be saying it and trust me, this is not an excuse, but this is context. This is circumstance. It definitely is playing a part of all of this, is how much football United are playing. Games every three days. Look at this. Manchester United collectively, as a team, we ran 99.

01km against Liverpool, which is the second, which is the lowest since that game against Brentford. If you saw that away end, don't blame any of them, by the way. This isn't a slightly United fans, best away support in the country. 4-0 down there, 20 minutes to go and the away ends half empty. It was a half. Everybody threw the towel in after 60-70 minutes, fans and players combined and then we collapsed in those last 15 minutes. It was a collective just waving the white flag.

And Eric Ten Haag as a manager has to be able to assess and analyse and find out what happened there. Because he spoke about it after the game, he said, look, you can lose a game, but not in that way in the second half. It was unprofessional. It was exactly what it was. He was surprised. I was surprised as well. Everybody was surprised.

But Ten Haag has dealt with everything that happened after Brighton and Brentford and what happened, became a better team off the back of it. He dealt with everything that happened with the Ronaldo situation. He got himself sacked. What happens? We're a better team as a consequence of it. That's what was surprised me so much about that result against Liverpool. You could say, as I said, that there are certain things that have been coming. The fact that we ran the second lowest behind that game against Brentford, these players are exhausted.

It is playing a role. Now, Ten Haag will not be using that as an excuse, but we can speak about it as fans. I don't think that Roy Keane needs to. I'm like, if Roy Keane is Roy Keane, he is what he is. I don't think this helps Manchester United. He sounds more like Graham Soonis in trying to twist a knife in saying that. But Roy Keane was a man who sets such incredible standards at Manchester United as captain.

I suppose he's entitled to say that. He can justify his comments because he knows that he would never have ever, ever put in that sort of level of performance as a Manchester United captain. Ten Haag now needs to use this week to assess how we move on from it, to assess what went wrong with Bruno because his head was completely gone. He can't do that as captain of Manchester United. What happened to you, Luke Shaw? You've been so good this season after coming back into the team. Arguably, the best you've played in the United shirt. You were even good in the first half, second half.

Woof, glassy eyed. Yes, Ten Haag made a mistake in my opinion in starting Diogo de Lowe over Wambasaka. Yes, I think Ten Haag made a mistake in starting Vecors and pushing Bruno out to the left wing to accommodate for Vecors. Particularly, I thought he made some errors in that game. But as Gary said, Gary Neville, as Andy Mitten writes here, this is Ten Haag's first season. We do have to let him build. There have been speed bumps and we've overcome every single one of them.

Now, I would say a 7-0 at Anfield is more than a speed bump. It's sustained now on the history of this rivalry. You know what, fans can't say anything to Liverpool fans at this point. But the most important thing is from this point is how United react to it. How do we move forward this week? And this is where I think we can take a few wise words from the man himself on reacting to defeat. What about reacting to the experience of defeat? Why is that such an essential part of what makes a winner? Defeat happens. I can accept defeat no bother.

No problem for me. Maybe when I was very young, I found it difficult. But you have to have the dignity to eventually be able to accept defeat and be a good loser. But it doesn't mean say you don't forget it. My purpose after that was to make sure it never happened again. I just hated losing that way. I would tell my players at the end of the game, I know in certain terms, and would always try to find the reason why we lost that game.

But the next match was another world, and I made sure I was going to win that next match. And that purpose and determination is something that is in you. Is that there or not there? What about reacting? Now, you could argue that this is the set of many years. We conceded six away at City, and now we conceded seven away at Liverpool. So we haven't reacted. The same things happened. And that is down to Eric Tenhoge.

I think what we've seen here is clearly at this point, from where we were last season to where we were this season, there's so much progress, but there is so much that still needs to be done. And I do think it's fair to say that there has been a pattern in these games where it is slightly more hostile. It is tougher. City away. Liverpool away. Brentford away shouldn't be a massively hostile environment for United. But then you look at the game at the New Camp and you say, well, look, we've dealt with it.

We can do it. So what is different? What has happened here? I can't personally put my finger on it. I know that there's a mental fragility and weakness there in these hostile environments, but we've proven it at the New Camp. So what was different about Anfield? What was different about City? How does Tenhoge move forward with these players? This game against Real Betis now on Thursday is huge. Previously with these setbacks, they've been setbacks. They haven't derailed our season. We're trophy winners already this season.

We're inside the top four with seven points ahead of Liverpool. Still, our season's going fine. But this is a big moment for Tenhoge with these players, with these cup winners. What happened there? How can we make sure it doesn't happen again? Because it happened at City and now it's happened here. There's clearly something there. Tenhoge has to find out what that is and move on with these players. But if you think I'm going to question Tenhoge off the back of a humiliating defeat there against Liverpool or Anfield, no, I'm not.

Am I going to question some of the decisions he made? Yes, I will, fairly. But we've made so much progress this season. I don't think this will derail our campaign. I think at the end of the season, we're going to look back at it and go, that was a successful season. But there were some bad memories in that season. Let's move forward. I want to know where you stand on this.

I agree with Gary Neville. I agree with Andy Mitten. And what Andy said there. Let him build. But these players have got to come with him. How he reacts, let's find out. You can let me know what you think in the comments below.

Thank you.

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